Fitz quotes from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Fitz

Giyera uploaded his data to a set of servers in Schoonebeek. It's on the Dutch-German border. It's an abandoned oil field.

Coulson

So Hydra’s in the oil business, now? It’s like they’re not even trying to avoid the bad-guy cliches.

Fitz

[breaks off] Sorry. Starting over, didn't mean to push too fast.

Simmons

Too fast? Fitz, it's been ten years. We can't waste any more time.

Fitz

Things are about to get complicated.

Simmons

You mean once we have sex?

Fitz

You didn't see Daisy. She acted like we were still best of pals, all while threatening to murder me.

Simmons

No, you're right. I didn't see that. I was much too busy listening to the disgusting face of Grant Ward act like my dead boyfriend.

Fitz

That's true. That sounds worse.

Simmons

Right. If this was a competition, then I'd win. I had to shoot him three times just to shut him up.

Simmons

You think I'm not romantic? I'm gonna do something with you on that island that will take your breath away.

Fitz

What is... eh... are... are you... what?

Simmons

Snorkelling!

Radcliffe

The point is, even though you may be feeling better, you suffered real, severe brain trauma.

Fitz

That said, we're gonna have to keep you a wee bit longer for further testing.

Radcliffe

Just to track your movements before we release you.

Radcliffe

Excuse me?

AIDA

Agent May says you can shove all your tests up your ass.

Radcliffe

Well, that's not very nice.

Simmons

Now I see why you've been spending so much time here.

Fitz

What?

Simmons

AIDA. She's beautiful.

Fitz

Is she? She's all right I guess. I prefer classical beauty myself.

Simmons

She's so real. Her conversational responses, her range of motion.

Fitz

Those are weird things to say about a person.

Simmons

Fitz, she's an android. You do know she's an android right?

Fitz

Of course I know that she's an android, because I helped out. Why do you think her dynamic reaction force is so low?

Daisy

Hey guys? I've got some big, fat, disappointing news. I can't hack in or shut down the plant's operating system from here.

Fitz

Well, you're out of practice. Too much punching, not enough hacking.

Daisy

Very funny. No, I can't hack in because their system isn't on a network, it predates the internet. Coulson, how did anything ever get done back in the old timey days?

Coulson

I ask myself that all the time.

Mack

First of all, that thing is not a she. It's a damn robot. And second of all, what is the matter with you two chuckleheads? Have either one of you seen a movie in the last thirty years? The robots always attack.

Radcliffe

Well, technically speaking AIDA's not a robot, she's an android.

Fitz

That's true.

Mack

Android, robot, it doesn't matter what you call them, the end results always the same. They rise up against their human overlords and go kill-crazy!

Radcliffe

You make a fair, if intense, point.

AIDA

[after being shot] I didn't like feeling pain, so I fixed that.

Fitz

AIDA, whatever you're doing, you've gotta stop.

AIDA

Why would you want to hurt me Leopold? I was your shield. [throws Fitz through a window into the next room]

Mack

[taking off the virtual reality head set] I like my video games as much as you, but this is too much.

Fitz

Yeah well, it's not like the Oculus Rift is a training exercise.

Mack

Yeah well, I doubt it's helping May run a triathlon.

Simmons

Mack!

Fitz

That's not how I meant it.

Mack

You built The Matrix prison and now May's stuck in it, like a brain scan.

Fitz

The Framework is a tool! That's all that it is, a tool.

Mack

Like AIDA was a tool?

Fitz

What are you trying to say? That all this is my fault?

Mack

What I'm saying is that if you didn't build a killer robot or a virtual world, this year would've been much easier for us. And whether you like it or not, that's the reality.

Fitz

I'm trying to help people, Mack.

Mack

I know you're not a bad person Fitz, but this gear has been used for some really bad things. You've got to think about the implications of what you create.

Fitz

Electricity is used to execute criminals. Does that mean we also shouldn't use it to power our hospitals?

Mack

That's not the same thing and you know it.

Fitz

There's always risk involved in science! That doesn't mean we don't pursue it anyway.

Simmons

We're going to save them.

Fitz

What if we can't? What if May suffers from permanent cognitive dysfunction or cerebral atrophy? Or she dies?

Simmons

Fitz...

Fitz

We don't know the adverse effects this could have on her brain. I did it to her. AIDA, the Framework, my fingerprints are all over these murder weapons. Mack was right.

Simmons

Mack was right, you do need to think about the implications of the things you create. But just because someone uses your ideas for evil does not make it your fault for creating it in the first place. You make things from the genius of your mind and the goodness of your heart, to help people! Don't let Radcliffe's actions corrupt that! You are not responsible for the twisted things he's done. Wrongs have been committed, now we make them right. Together.

[standing in bliss on the shore with the waves washing over her feet] I had no idea. I've only emulated human reactions, but to actually feel! The warm sand, the water rushing over me.

Fitz

I feel like I'm gonna throw up.

I'm sorry, you must feel overwhelmed. Two lives worth of memories.

Fitz

Only one type of person can do those things.

You did what you had to do, in order to survive the Framework. But it was a simulation. An illusion created by Radcliffe.

Fitz

You were there, alongside me the whole time, allowing horrific acts of violence to be carried out in your name.

You're implying I had a choice. I was a slave, programmed to make the adjustments Radcliffe required. The world changed from there. All I did was try to fit into it.

Fitz

No, you lied about everything.

I told you the truth about this world.

Fitz

Yeah, but you manipulated me.

Every decision you made was your own. Besides restoring your relationship with your father, the only other change I made in your life was... introducing myself!

Fitz

First day of class at Academy.

Befriending you, trying to understand what it felt like to connect with someone. But I wasn't able to actually feel anything, until today. I'm feeling love, wonder, joy for the very first time and I think my heart might burst from it. At last I get to make my own choices, and the first thing I choose Leopold is you.

Do you think they'll ever be able to forgive me? Perhaps they need to make me feel pain to understand theirs.

Fitz

They may be able to forgive you. It's me they won't forgive. They shouldn't.

We both did things we regret. I know you're struggling with who you were, and–

Fitz

No, I'm not. I'm struggling with who I am. I did those things, not some other man or decoy. Me.

It was learned behavior, programmed into you by an overbearing father figure.

Fitz

Just like Ward. [pause] I'm just like Ward. [walks to the bed and sits] How could she even look me in the eye? How could she stand the sight of me at all? How can she stomach it? The memory of seeing me shoot that woman.

You know, the reason I wanted to get closer to you in the first place was... to try and understand what you two felt for each other, you and Jemma. And I finally do.

Fitz

Yeah, what we felt. Past tense, because my future with Jemma's dead, killed that too.

It's okay, it's okay.

Fitz

There isn't room in my heart for two people. You were everything to me.

I know. But as devoted as I was to you in the Framework, I understand you better now. How deeply you love.

Fitz

You do understand me, don't you?

Yes, Leopold. Now I do. It's sad, but beautiful. Like a pain that feels good, if that makes sense.

Fitz

Yeah, you understand that my love will never fade.

Yeah, I know. Poor thing, you're a romantic, and there's only room in your heart for–

Fitz

Her.

Fitz

Ophelia, you're upset because this is all new. There's - there's lots of feelings. That must be overwhelming.

It is overwhelming. There are too many feelings, which is why I decided to feel only one of them - vengeance. It's hot and clean and sharp like a knife. And my vengeance is going to make you suffer, the way that I have suffered.